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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think we should support these Godly ministers who want to hold mass services
in starting their new prison ministries.
WhiskeyGrinder
(27,232 posts)ret5hd
(22,588 posts)from the outside.
gibraltar72
(7,631 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)I m not sure if the historical Jesus existed, but he is reputed to have said this:
6 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Then comes the Lord's Prayer, which the Gulfstream Preachers also tend to selectively read.
Prison ministries, indeed.
FM123
(10,386 posts)And they don't have to do this, their recklessness is going to cost so many lives. Even the Archbishop of Miami ordered no more Sunday Masses, not even for Easter. This is in defiance of our inept governor who said they could.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241695281.html
ret5hd
(22,588 posts)Death cult? Yeah, he's got that covered.
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